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Practice is alive and well in the Sudan despite being outlawed.
2003 JUL 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Female genital mutilation continues to be widely practiced in the Sudan, despite its classification as a criminal offense, indicates research in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections.
Female genital mutilation, also known as female circumcision, entails the removal of varying amounts of tissue from the genitalia, including all or part of the clitoris. Although practiced worldwide, it is most common in Africa, where it is usually performed on girls as young as 3 by people with no medical qualifications, and often without anesthetic.
The researchers distributed a detailed questionnaire to 500 randomly selected students on the two main campuses of Khartoum University over two weeks in July 2000. Students attending the university come from all ethnic, religious, and social backgrounds.
As well as requesting demographic and course details, the questionnaire posed questions about the students' knowledge and experiences of female genital mutilation.
Among the 414 questionnaires returned, 192 (46%) were from women. Of these, well over half (57%) said they had been circumcised. Only 5% ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Practice is alive and well in the Sudan despite being outlawed.